Adherence
Physical exercise, cold exposure, and certain nutritional strategies (capsaicin, caffeine, EPA) can stimulate brown and beige fat activity, offering potential therapeutic targets for age-related metabolic disease.
You can potentially boost your body's fat-burning capacity (brown and beige fat) through lifestyle choices. Regular physical activity, exposure to cooler temperatures, and consuming certain foods like spicy peppers (capsaicin), green tea (catechins), or fatty fish (EPA) may help stimulate these tissues. While the effects might be less pronounced in older adults, these strategies offer non-pharmacological ways to support metabolic health.
Different types of strategies and molecular targets have been suggested for implementing possible interventions to slow age-related changes in brown and beige adipose tissue. ... Physical exercise ... Cold Exposure ... Nutritional Strategies ... capsaicin ... caffeine ... EPA ... may mimic the cold induced BAT activation.
Why this rating
The paper reviews multiple studies showing efficacy in rodents and some in humans, though human data in the elderly is noted as conflicting or limited.
Source
Brown and Beige Adipose Tissue and Aging
Elena Zoico et al. · Frontiers in Endocrinology · 2019
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